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The Israeli Lobby In Washington

Posted on Wednesday, August 02 at 11:58 by Sgt_ShockNAwe
Two well-known American academics, Stephen Walt, former academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and John Mearsheimer from the University of Chicago, recently published a lengthy essay titled The Israel Lobby. Professors Walt and Mearsheimer write that American foreign policy has been "unduly influenced and even distorted by this U.S. domestic pressure group." The lobby's driving force is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. Associated with it are many national Jewish organizations across the United States and some members of the U.S. civil service. While AIPAC does not raise money to finance candidates, it holds information workshops, sponsors paid trips to Israel and provides advice and assistance to pro Israel Political Action Committees (PACs) throughout the U.S. http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_reed/20060801.html

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  1. by boflaade
    Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:54 pm
    It also helps to be a big customer of American weapon dealers. Presently the dealers are making big money sending armament to Israel.

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  2. by FurGaia
    Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:10 pm
    The following is a video that goes back to 2003. I had not seen it until this week. It adds to the information in this thread. <p> <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696">Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land</a></p> <p><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/10/2545">A review</a></p> <p>Other related links:</p> <p><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14055.htm">http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14055.htm</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaRaceAndRepresentation/PeacePropaganda">http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaRaceAndRepresentation/PeacePropaganda</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.palestineonlinestore.com/films/propaganda.htm">http://www.palestineonlinestore.com/films/propaganda.htm</a></p> <p>Please help inform others.</p> <p> -------------------------------</p> There is also an interesting point from Norman Finkelstein on this issue: "In the current fractious debate over the role of the Israel Lobby in the formulation and execution of US policies in the Middle East, the "either-or" framework -- giving primacy to either the Israel Lobby or to U.S. strategic interests -- isn't, in my opinion, very useful." [<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein05012006.html">More</a>]<p>



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